City and Liberty
of Westminster
in the County of
Middlesex }
to wit.

An Inquisition Indented, taken for our Sovereign Lord the
King, at the Parish of Saint Paul Covent Garden
within the Liberty of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter Westminster ,
in the County of Middlesex , the Fifteenth day of August in the Sixteenth Year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great-Britain,
France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith and so forth, before Thomas Prickard< no role > , Gentleman,
Coroner of our said Lord the King for the said City and Liberty, on View of the Body of
the Honble John Damer< no role > Esqr. then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of John Lucas< no role > ,
John Armitage< no role > , Robert Evans< no role > , Adams Wright< no role > , William Eyre< no role > , William Pearson< no role > , Christopher
Goulden< no role > , Barnaby Darly< no role > , Peter Hodgson< no role > , Christopher Rositer< no role > , Barnard Baker< no role > , Francis
Richardson< no role > , Jeremiah Hawkes< no role > , John Gilpin< no role > , Joseph Holmden< no role > , Walter
Watkins< no role > , Humphry Tomkinson< no role > , John Clarke< no role > , James Henley< no role > , Joseph
Withers< no role > , Thomas Weston< no role > & William Aldridge< no role > good and Lawfull Men of the said Liberty duly
chosen, who being then and there duty Sworn and charged to enquire for our said Lord the
King, when, how, and by what Means the said John Damer came to
his Death, do upon their Oath say, That the said John Damer, not being of
sound Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and distracted
on the said Fifteenth day of August in the Year aforesaid at the
Parish aforesaid within the Liberty and County aforesaid, a certain
Pistol charged with Gunpowder and a leaden Bullet, which he the said
John Damer then and there had and held in his Right Hand, to
and against the Right side of the Head of him the said John Damer
did then and there shoot off and discharge, by Means whereof
he the said John Damer did then and there give unto himself with
the Leaden Bullet aforesaid, so discharged and shot out of the Pistol
aforesaid, by the force of the Gunpowder aforesaid, one mortal wound
in and upon the rightside of the Head of him the said John Damer,
of which said mortal wound he the said John Damer then and there
instantly died. And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid do say, that the said John Damer, not being of Sound
Mind Memory and Understanding, but lunatick and Distracted
in Manner and by the Means aforesaid, did kill himself.
In Witness whereof as well the said Coroner, as the said
John Lucas< no role > Foreman of the said Jurors, on the behalf of himself
and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition
set their Hands, and Seals the Day Year and Place first abovewritten.

Thos. Prickard< no role > Coroner .

John Lucas< no role > Foreman